This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

If we survive this or if anyone survives this. How will we ever explain it? History could never get this accurately filed into the right category. It would appear as madness like in the days Caligula or Nero. We wonder about how people could ever let that happen. Caligula naming his horse pro counsel or RFK as health Secretary. France is asking for the Statue of Liberty’s return. If you’re not going to use it, give it back! “Oh, and by the way, give Mel Gibson his gun right’s back. Because he’s a friend of the King, that’s why!”

But the madness is in the true obtuseness of the situation. Grown educated men and women either too thick or too poorly educated to understand. This story has been repeated a thousand times in the catalog of human crime. A rogue government looting the treasury and headed for the cliff. I can see it. I bet you can too. But for some reason the people inside the bubble think oh, this is fine. This won’t end as a major motion picture someday in which my character doesn’t survive.

Let’s take the business record and acumen of Donald Trump and kick it up a notch, shall we? Let’s put it on steroids and a turbo and watch see what happens! King Donald the turd roils the stock market. A decline of 10% in just a few days. Then the King shuts up for 48 hrs. and doesn’t threaten anyone new and the markets begin to recover. High paid grown folks! Experts saying, “Well, he hasn’t said anything crazy in a while. Maybe it will be alright after all!”

It is the most shocking blindness as all the markers and signposts are all right there and obvious for all to see. This Administration promotes “drill baby drill!” Only thanks to the King’s policies the price of oil is too low to make any money or even start a new well. The forecasts and experts predict a falling oil market. Due in large part to the King’s unprovoked trade war. Buy! Buy! It’s going to be alright! He hasn’t said anything crazy in a while. After we get our tax cut and rob the people. It’s gonna be great! The markets will soar!

Like the German Industrialists who didn’t personally like Hitler, but thought he’d be good for business. He understood the small businessman. But by 1939, you had to be denser than stone not to see what was over the horizon. The crazy can’t last and sooner or later the piper must be paid. Sooner or later, he will step over the line. It is a story written in the stones of time.

Now imagine you work on Wall Street as an analyst forecasting the future. Can you be so deflected and afflicted and disaffected as not to see the giant Iceberg dead ahead? If you take eighty billion dollars out of Medicaid each year and cut hundreds of programs and tens of thousands of employees. How can everything be alright? What are the best stocks to buy in a Great Depression? Ain’t it great! They cut my taxes! Boy, if only I had a job now!

Name an American industry headed for good times. Automotive stocks or Airline stocks? Healthcare stocks, hospital or pharmaceuticals? What two words best describe an Airbnb in Florida? Give up? For Sale! The Canadians aren’t coming, nobody is coming. Five dollar a bushel corn is a thing of the past and the lush days of protected agricultural programs are over. The big get bigger, and the small get stepped on in Laze unfair Capitalism. Give Mel Gibson his guns back. Just write his name in. What’s the problem? He won’t shoot you.

The fix is in, and the Revolution will not be televised. The media soft peddles public demonstrations of anger so as not to annoy the King. Popular numbers fall for spineless Democrats and spineless Democrats being spineless Democrats are confused about what to do next? Why don’t they like us? We need to hold a special meeting of all the usual people and not hear any new voices. Let’s do nothing and see what happens! Chuck Schumer will delay the publication of his new book, “Why is Everyone Retching?” Political books are political capital. Gee, Senator. I know it would be wrong of me to try and bribe you. I’d just like to buy thirty thousand copies of your latest book. I’m a big fan. Have them shipped directly to my document shredder.

Misunderstanding the moment and the mood, Democrats offer spitballs and cringing when the people seek a champion to speak for them. A standard to rally around. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ. Opening the road for the king to have his way. If you don’t know history, I don’t want to spoil it for you. But I wouldn’t buy any stocks if I were you.

Imagine the homeless problem times ten. Imagine West Virginia under record floods with no help coming. Imagine billions in damage across the Southeast with no help coming. Without even a mention, because that was yesterday. The King doesn’t like FEMA, so I guess it sucks to be you. Imagine a national natural disaster which doesn’t even deserve a mention of pity by the King.

The doors to our products are closed and the doors to our markets are closed. But the forecast looks good! Real good! Times are going to be great!

“You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.”   ― Alexander Solzhenitsyn